Excerpt from The Spanish Pioneers We love manhood; and the Spanish pioneering of the Americas was the largest and longest and most marvellous feat of man hood in all history. It was not possible for a Saxon boy to learn that truth in my boy hood; it is enormously difficult, if possible, now. The hopelessness of trying to get from any or all English text-books a just picture of the Spanish hero in the New World made me resolve that no other young American lover of heroism and justice shall need to grope so long in the dark ...
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Excerpt from The Spanish Pioneers We love manhood; and the Spanish pioneering of the Americas was the largest and longest and most marvellous feat of man hood in all history. It was not possible for a Saxon boy to learn that truth in my boy hood; it is enormously difficult, if possible, now. The hopelessness of trying to get from any or all English text-books a just picture of the Spanish hero in the New World made me resolve that no other young American lover of heroism and justice shall need to grope so long in the dark as I had to; and for the following glimpses into the most in teresting of stories he has to thank me less than that friend of us both, A. F. Bandelier, the master of the New School. Without the light shed on early America by the scholar ship of this great pupil of the great Humboldt, my book could not have been written, - nor by me without his generous personal aid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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